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General Practice Extraction Service – Investigation
Published on:Mistakes in the original procurement and contract management of an IT system, designed to extract data from GP practices, contributed to losses of public funds, through asset write-offs and settlements with suppliers.
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Investigation into the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s loans to the Green Deal Finance Company
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers’ costs – and therefore energy bills – in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme.
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Investigating the potential impacts of cost of debt indexation in the water sector
Published on:This paper sets out how we constructed a counterfactual to establish how much water customers in England and Wales could have benefited from an alternative charging system between 2010/11 and 2014/15.
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FOI request and disclosure log 2024
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests made to the NAO in 2024.
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Our history
The National Audit Office has existed in its present form since 1983. A public audit function for central government within the UK has a much longer history.
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NAO work on transition grant and rural services delivery grant
Published on:In response to correspondence from Helen Goodman MP on behalf of 11 other MPs the NAO conducted an investigation into the Department for Communities and Local Government’s approach to the allocation of transition grant and rural service delivery grant (rural grant) for 2016-17.
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Child Maintenance: closing cases and managing arrears on the 1993 and 2003 schemes
Published on:The National Audit Office has today published the findings of its investigation into the Department for Work & Pensions’ closure of its 1993 and 2003 ‘Child Support Agency’ child maintenance schemes.
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Improving productivity could release tens of billions for government priorities
Published on:In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.
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Smarter approach to tackling fraud and economic crime could save MoD millions
Published on:The Ministry of Defence could make significant savings if it better managed its losses from fraud and other forms of economic crime.
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Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants
Published on:This briefing was produced for Parliament in response to correspondence we received from The Rt Hon Frank Field.
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NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25
Published on:Our annual report and accounts provides a detailed account of all our work, our performance progress and the impact of our work in 2024-25.
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Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Procurement Investigation
Published on:We report on our investigation arising from the findings of Internal Audit for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman regarding the management of conflicts of interest in procuring services during a fundamental change programme.
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Investigation into financial support for students at alternative higher education providers
Published on:We focus on specific concerns about the financial support provided to students attending some alternative HE colleges and other providers.
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Auditing the government’s response to COVID-19
Published on:I last posted to this blog in late April as the country was in the teeth of the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining how we were maintaining our operations and adjusting our work programme in the light of the government response to the virus. Now, in late July, most of the UK is gradually emerging from lockdown […]
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Investigating the impact of out-of-hours GP services on A&E attendance rates: multilevel regression analysis
Published on:This series of papers summarises the methodological approaches we have taken in carrying out innovative or novel analysis. Such analysis is conducted under our statutory authority to examine and report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which government departments and other bodies have used their resources.
The Audit insights papers are methodological summaries and do not make new observations about value for money.
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Investigation into potential conflicts of interest in the award of Disabled Students’ Allowance
Published on:This report examines the arrangements for disabled students at Plymouth University whose support requirements were assessed by an assessment centre based on the University’s main campus.
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Government spends £377 million in 9 months to keep British Steel’s Scunthorpe site operating
Published on:This investigation examines the government’s 2025 intervention in British
Steel’s Scunthorpe site, led by DBT. -
Investigating the impact of out-of-hours GP services on A&E attendance rates: multilevel regression analysis
Published on:This paper sets out how we used an analytical technique called multilevel regression modelling to investigate the factors affecting levels of attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments by patients registered at a GP practice.
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FOI request and disclosure log 2023
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO in 2023.